Cox, to become the first sitting senator elected president. He promised a return to normalcy of the pre- World War I period, and won in a landslide over Democrat James M. He conducted a front porch campaign, remaining mostly in Marion, and allowed the people to come to him. When the leading candidates could not garner a majority, and the convention deadlocked, support for Harding increased, and he was nominated on the tenth ballot. Harding ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1920, but was considered a long shot before the convention. He was defeated for governor in 1910, but was elected to the United States Senate in 1914, the state's first direct election for that office. Harding served in the Ohio State Senate from 1900 to 1904, and was lieutenant governor for two years. As a young man, he bought The Marion Star and built it into a successful newspaper. Harding lived in rural Ohio all his life, except when political service took him elsewhere.
After his death, a number of scandals were exposed, including Teapot Dome, as well as an extramarital affair with Nan Britton, which diminished his reputation. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. Warren Gamaliel Harding (Novem– August 2, 1923) was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923.
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